Under-garment



- Wi'izz em'ea T. B. FARR'I-NGTON, Under Garment.

Patented June 15,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS B. FARRINGTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UNDER-GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,748, dated June 15,1880.

Application filed September 30, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS B. FARR-ING- TON,of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Under-Garments; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to the combination, with a woven or clothunder-garment, of knitted wrist or ankle pieces or tips of thatcharacter adapted, by their elasticity, to hug the wrist or ankle.

I am aware that woven garments have been heretofore provided withknitted tips, and do not claim, broadly, such combination; but myinvention consists in a cloth body and knit tip, divided at its edge toreceive the edge of the cloth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the extremity of a sleeve or legprovided with the knit-ted wrist or ankle piece. Fig. 2 is an enlargedsection of the same; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, more clearlyshowing the mode of joining the two parts of unlike fabric.

A represents the body of the garment, made, say, of closely-wovenflannel, and being, therefore, comparatively inelastic.

B represents the wrist or ankle part, which is made, by the usual methodof knitting such part, to have a special tendency to contract about thewrist or ankle. For the purpose of uniting the two parts the uppermargin of the tip B is longitudinally divided in making it, so as tohave a longitudinal slit in its edge, into which the less elastic edgeof the part A may be inserted; as shown in Fig. 1. In securing the partsto each other the part B is stretched to equal the length of the edge ofA, and the whole is stitched through and through, or each edge of thedivided portions 0 and cl may be separately secured by felling to thebody A. If desired to give still better finish the added strip a may beapplied to cover the upper edge of the knitted tip on the outer side, asshown in Figs. 1 and 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In combination with thecloth body A, the knit tip 13, divided at its upper edge to receive theedge of the body, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS B. FARRINGTON.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA R. NrcHoLs, HENRY HARWOOD.

